Involved exclusively children less than two years old or adolescents over 18 years old

Treatment trial conducted for less than eight weeks (not including duration of follow-up)

Prevention trial conducted for less than six months (not including duration of follow-up)

Treatment trial involved fewer than 10 subjects total (or fewer than 10 in the intervention group)

Prevention trial involved fewer than 60 subjects total (or fewer than 30 in the intervention group)

Treatment trials involving pharmacological interventions (because of lack of research in these areas)

Cross-sectional studies.

Search Terms & Electronic Databases Used

("Body Weights and Measures"[Mesh] OR "Body Mass Index"[Mesh] OR "Adiposity"[mh] OR "Overweight"[mh] OR "Obesity"[mh] OR "Weight Gain"[mh]) AND "Dietary Fiber"[Mesh]

(“weight” OR obesity OR adiposity OR overweight OR BMI OR “body mass” OR waist) AND (fiber OR fibre) AND (children OR adolescent* OR child OR childhood) AND ((publisher[sb] NOT pubstatusnihms NOT pubstatuspmcsd) OR pubstatusaheadofprint)